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  • Waste pickers collecting recyclables on Kpone Landfill in Accra, Ghana Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study September 15, 2020

    Le gouvernement ghanéen laisse les récupératrice·eur·s de matériaux se débrouiller seul·e·s face à la pandémie de la COVID-19

    En pleine pandémie COVID-19, alors que les travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel du monde entier luttent pour gagner leur vie, le gouvernement...

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  • Waste pickers collecting recyclables on Kpone Landfill in Accra, Ghana Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study September 15, 2020

    El gobierno de Ghana deja desamparadas a las personas recicladoras en medio de la pandemia de COVID-19

    En medio de la pandemia de COVID-19, mientras las personas trabajadoras en empleo informal de todo el mundo luchan por sobrevivir, el gobierno...

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  • Rendering of Marché Sandaga Rehabilitation Project- News
    Access to Public Space September 02, 2020

    Démolition du marché Sandaga et recasement, l’avenir des tabliers en question

    La démolition du bâtiment central du marché Sandaga, plusieurs fois annoncée et reportée, est prévue après la fête de l’Aid d’El Kébir, en...

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  • Bhavna Ramesh sews purses at home. Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment News
    COVID-19 Crisis Study September 02, 2020

    Women who work from home ‘shrouded in a cloak of invisibility’

    “When we think of work-from-home, let us enable and promote better living and working conditions not just for the elite, but also for the...

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  • Waste pickers collecting recyclables on Kpone Landfill in Accra, Ghana Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study September 01, 2020

    Ghanaian government leaves waste pickers to fend for themselves amidst COVID-19 pandemic

    In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with informal workers worldwide struggling to earn a living, the Ghanaian government began the decommissioning...

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  • Research Reports

    Impactos da pandemia de COVID-19 sobre reciclagem inclusiva no Brasil

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  • Resource Documents

    No Place for Street Vendors: Global Capital and Local Exclusion in an East Asian Immigrant Enclave of New York City

    The survey on which this Resource Document is based shows that, for many people in the New York City neighbourhood of Flushing, a good neighbourhood...

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  • Research Reports

    Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Inclusive Recycling in Brazil

    Totally reshaping our systems of inclusive recycling is important if we take into consideration that waste pickers are an essential part...

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Informal Economy Revisited bookcover

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  • The Informal Economy Revisited by Chen and Carre book Cover News
    Future of Work July 14, 2020

    The Informal Economy Revisited – landmark book in open access

    This open-access book, edited by Martha Chen and Françoise Carré, brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts,...

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